{"id":583,"date":"2012-08-21T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T07:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?page_id=583"},"modified":"2012-08-28T11:26:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T09:26:21","slug":"pinball-magazine-no-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?page_id=583","title":{"rendered":"Pinball Magazine No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-449 alignright\" title=\"Pinball Magazine 1 final cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-105x148.png 105w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-22x31.png 22w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-27x38.png 27w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover-152x215.png 152w, https:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Pinball-Magazine-1-final-cover.png 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>The sub menus, as well as the links below indicate what some of the the content of the first issue of Pinball Magazine is like.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents of Pinball Magazine No.1, 112 full color pages on quality paper:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The most complete interview with Roger Sharpe ever, including:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>how he got into pinball<\/li>\n<li>the story of his testimonial which resulted in the legalization of pinball in New York City<\/li>\n<li>his books, including\u00a0<em>&#8216;Pinball!&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>his pinball designs, including\u00a0<em>Sharpeshooter<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Global Warfare<\/em>\u00a0(prototype only),\u00a0<em>Barracora<\/em>\u00a0and more<\/li>\n<li>the story behind\u00a0<em>The Muppets Haunted House Adventure<\/em>, his pinball styled redemption design from 2000<\/li>\n<li>how he re-introduced licensing to pinball and several licensing related anecdotes<\/li>\n<li>how pinball enthusiast like yourself can help to bring back pinball into street-locations<\/li>\n<li>how pinball operators can improve earnings on their pinball machines<\/li>\n<li>how to do PR for pinball and\/or pinball events<\/li>\n<li>pinball leagues<\/li>\n<li>memories of Roger on working with the late Steve Kordek<\/li>\n<li>comments on the pinball industry, the Pinball 2000 project, Stern Pinball, Jersey Jack and his Wizard of Oz game<\/li>\n<li>some surprising plans and anonymous projects from the past<\/li>\n<li>and much more<\/li>\n<li><strong>Others about Roger<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>including contributions by Steve Epstein, Larry DeMar, Greg Freres, Dennis Nordman, Mark Ritchie, and others<\/li>\n<li><strong>International Flipper Pinball Accosiation 2.0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Josh and Zach Sharpe, sons of Roger, talk about the success the new IFPA has become<\/li>\n<li><strong>A look on the inside of Pinside.com<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>An interview with Robin and Martijn van Mourik, two Dutch brothers who&#8217;s Pinside hobby project became the largest online pinball community<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exploring the Pacific Pinball Museum<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Founder Michael Schiess takes us on a guided tour through the rooms of the museum and talks about Pacific Pinball as well<\/li>\n<li><strong>Specialty collectors<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Jeremy Fleitz talks about collecting full size Game Plan pinball machines<\/li>\n<li><strong>and more<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links to fragments of articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Interview: Roger Sharpe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?page_id=485\">Coverstory: Interview with Roger Sharpe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Others about Roger: Larry DeMar (Director of Engineering, Pinball Programmer)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?page_id=580\">Others about Roger: Larry DeMar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PM#01 videos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?page_id=229\">Video section for issue No. 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Typos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinball-magazine.com\/?page_id=615\">Typos in the first edition of issue No.1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links to related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Roger Sharpe interview<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F10714FE3C5916768FDDA10A94DA415B858BF1D3\">Pinball machines are moving into family rooms and dens Ping!<\/a>\u00a0by Roger Sharpe, published in the New York Times, December 28th 1975.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F10E12FA3B5916768FDDAD0994DD405B868BF1D3\">COUNCIL APPROVES PINBALL MEASURE; Vote Would End Ban &#8230;<\/a>\u00a0New york Times article on Roger Sharpe&#8217;s testimony that legalized pinball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papa.org\/flipside\">Flipside Magazine Archives<\/a>\u00a0Digital archive of The Flipside magazies, which Roger Sharpe silently (using various names) edited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Pinside.com article<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinside.com\/pinball\/community\/pinsiders\/robin\">Visit Robin\u2019s profile page<\/a>: Profile page of Robin van Mourik, founder of Pinside.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinside.com\/pinball\/community\/pinsiders\/martijn\">Visit Martijn\u2019s profile page<\/a>:\u00a0Profile page of Martijn van Mourik, co-founder of Pinside.com<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/pinballhead.com\/pinball-profile-on-pinside-com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/pinballhead.com\/pinball-profile-on-pinside-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interview with Robin van Mourik on Pinballhead.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Pacific Pinball Museum article<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pacific Pinball Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificpinball.org\" target=\"_blank\">Link to the website of the Pacific Pinball Museum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>IFPA article<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IFPA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifpapinball.com\" target=\"_blank\">Link to the website of the IFPA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sub menus, as well as the links below indicate what some of the the content of the first issue of Pinball Magazine is like. &nbsp; Contents of Pinball Magazine No.1, 112 full color pages on quality paper: &nbsp; The most complete interview with Roger Sharpe ever, 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